This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/XY.2ADE/393.1.2.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Lois, You did make my day with this response, although it's night here. I'll amend the footnote in my family history on Balarat with the original spelling of Victoria's Ballaraat (did I get it right?). We visited there about 1983 and it was grand. The American Balarat is an overgrown gulch in the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies that nobody ever visits. Rollie